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Real ale is a bit of a fragile beastie, there's bit of yeast floating in it (and sometimes other things) and you want to give it time to settle.
This also allows the beer to condition so that all the harshness of "young" beer comes out of the beer. This is a process that takes 3 - 5 days.
However GK have perfected a process where the beer "drops bright", ie looks cosmetically acceptable, in just a few hours. However, the beer thus served is pretty kack and that, sadly, is the GK real ale IPA you'll get served in most pubs in the UK.
What i'm saying is that, if you give it time to settle, it's actually a really good beer, but GK don't do this. keep to the Fen Causeway
Formerly, pulling a pint of Guinness was a bit of an art form as well, although modern dispense technology has reduced variability in this. I'm not an expert on the technical side of brewing but I would imagine beer coming out of microbreweries would be much more variable. Perhaps that is part of its charm and attraction.
Most large scale brewery produced beer - as far as I am aware - is pre-filtered and doesn't have the yeast floating issues discussed by Helen in relation to real or craft beers. Finings are used to settle or accelerate settling of sediments (yeasts and proteins) prior to bottling/kegging. Not all finings are vegetarian and so, technically, not all beers are vegetarian as trace elements may remain in beer. Index of Frank's Diaries
Helen:
However GK have perfected a process where the beer "drops bright", ie looks cosmetically acceptable, in just a few hours. However, the beer thus served is pretty kack and that, sadly, is the GK real ale IPA you'll get served in most pubs in the UK. What i'm saying is that, if you give it time to settle, it's actually a really good beer, but GK don't do this.
What i'm saying is that, if you give it time to settle, it's actually a really good beer, but GK don't do this.
So it is GK in their role as pub chain that is the real problem. Ok, another non-brit question: Is the UK pub market to a large part owned by breweries? Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
No the UK pub market is now largely in the hands of independent owners who are doing their best to destroy the pubs as businesses. (It's more lucrative to sell off the building for other purposes)
An essay on this subject is being built keep to the Fen Causeway
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